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Meanings of steam generator in English

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A pressurized system in which water is vaporized to steam by heat transferred from a source of higher temperature, usually the products of combustion from burning fuels.

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Usage of steam generator in English
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A good teakettle will serve the purpose for a steam generator.
Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 2
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Then a man came along with a patent steam generator which would save ninety per cent.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900
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Another will be shut on October 30 to inspect weldings related to the safety of a steam generator.
Reuters
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The explosibility of a steam generator may be measured by the relation of its total capacity to its vaporizing power.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
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Each steam generator is 65 feet tall, 22 feet in diameter and weighs 640 tons.
Reuters
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And, in this particular case we're able to capture it and run it through something called a heat recovery steam generator.
The new yorker
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Remaining steam generator tasks include the completion of piping restoration, repairing the containment opening and replacing and tensioning the containment tendons.
Reuters
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From the above it will be easy to understand the general arrangement of the new steam generator, when connected with its motor.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
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Electric motors because the industrial machinery to assemble them was cheaper than the equivalent necessary to produce a steam generator and turbine unit.
The Reality Dysfunction
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The advantage of this technology is there is no need for steam generators.
Reuters
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Last autumn, the company replaced the steam generators in the adjacent Unit 2.
Reuters
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The steam generators are of the Ten Brink type, and are seven in number.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
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Steam generators produce the steam that drives the plants turbines.
Reuters
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The fluid will power steam generators that produce electricity.
Reuters
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SCE filed with California utility regulators for permission to replace the steam generators in Feb. 2004.
Reuters
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And steam generators make noise, which we had to justify with the steam we see in the picture.
Reuters